Facebook updates photo display to hi-res, full-screen view

Facebook today upgraded the way it displays photos to allow the highest resolution possible and full-screen views, although only if you use the latest Chrome or Firefox browsers.

Considering there are more than 250 million photos a day uploaded to Facebook, this could be a key feature that helps the social network keep up with competition from Google+ or even the photo-centric Pinterest.

The change also comes just as the Menlo Park company gets set to push all company and brand pages to the new photo-heavy Timeline format on March 31.

Facebook changed photo displays last month to move comments to the right side of photos instead of underneath, which also made ads more visible. But now, with a click, you can even push those comments and ads off to the side to get a better view of your pictures.

The latest change started because Facebook “tinker tester solver sleuth” Ryan Mack was annoyed that a vacation photo he uploaded to share didn’t have the right colors. So Mack joined the company’s photo team for a month and he gives a rather technical explanation of how the improvements happened HERE.